Chronic Wasting Disease in Missouri deer herd...

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Guess I'll have to stop reading anything. But now, I've read that Missouri's young Elk herd may be infested with 'brain worm' disease.

You know, I don't make this stuff up [however, my drill sargeant always said we recruits had brain worms] :D

Biologist said he didn't know if the worms would infect whitetails or not ?  :-\

The commission said they've lost several elk from stress-drought related issues.

And, what about  they were going to contain the imported elk on Peck Ranch? A elk cow was destroyed near the Arkansas state line because it would not return to the ranch.

Authorities now say Missouri's elk herd would be held to 400-500 animals with only 20-40 hunting permits issued.

Question is, can Elk be happy & healthy in the Ozarks, good luck!

[SwampDonkey]

Deer have not test positive here yet. We also have illegal deer farms here, deer from outside NB. The Fish and Wildlife Act spells this out as illegal activity. A year ago a man was killed by a buck on his farm. Right then, there was to be a clamp down on the farms and the deer had to be destroyed. A few months later DNR backed off and the farms continue. The provincial DNR biologist is not very happy with that reversal. I was told by a friend whom this biologist is also a friend that he took leave. He has not been very happy with the higher ups for some time on a few issues. To be quite honest, management is based on politics and has been for a long time.

[Magicman]

It is sad to see nature's wrath, but I am glad that you found him Bibby.  He carried antlers that would have made someone happy.

[Bibbyman]

They farmers that run heffers on our property also rent crop ground from the land owner just south of us. They said he'd found an 8 pointer dead.

I got a second Moultrie L50 on Friday and set it up at the edge of the pasture.   I pulled the card yesterday (Sunday) and had a lot of deer pictures.  Many were just bright eyes in the dark but got a good late day picture of a young 8 pointer.



 

Got around to uploading the picture.  Good pose.  Could have used more light.

P.S.  I got the year set wrong.

[Bibbyman]

  



I went by where I found the dead 15 point buck back in late September.  I couldn't find hide nor hair or even bone of it.  I had to get my iPhone out and find the picture I'd taken to make sure I found the same tree.  No evidence left.

[SwampDonkey]

It's one of the reasons why caged deer herds are not allowed in NB. The think about it, is they are deer imported in, not local deer. Thus the worry of such diseases. The government knows of these caged herds and yet don't act on the law. They were going to this past spring, but the got "yellow belly fever" and backed down. The NB biologist went on leave because politics trumps the law up here.